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To: Eala
Oops . . . make that fiadachadh. Forgot "broad to broad and slender to slender." Which is probably how the distiller came up with "fiddich" in the first place!

(if you think my spelling is bad in English, you oughta see my Gaelic! -- but I bet the spelling police would never have caught me if I hadn't turned myself in! :-D )

64 posted on 07/19/2003 7:29:53 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
(if you think my spelling is bad in English, you oughta see my Gaelic! -- but I bet the spelling police would never have caught me if I hadn't turned myself in! :-D )

I'm still groggy or I might have. *\:-) But Gaelic is (generally) so easy...

But the pronunciation of "fiadachadh" seems rather far from "fiddich" -- the latter at least sounds like the genitive. Now you've made me pull out the Dwelly's and I find: "fiadhach" - hunting, esp. of deer.

(Shouldn't be getting into this now -- need to pack for vacation...)

67 posted on 07/19/2003 7:44:13 AM PDT by Eala
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